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Home » Holiday Science » Easter Science » Awesome Easter STEM Challenges

Awesome Easter STEM Challenges

Modified: Apr 10, 2025 · Published: Mar 22, 2024 by Emma Vanstone · This post may contain affiliate links · 5 Comments

Easter is fast approaching, so it’s the perfect time to try some of our Easter STEM Challenges! We’ve been busy testing these for you over the last couple of weeks and would LOVE to see the creations of your little scientists, so do share photos with us on Facebook, Instagram or Twitter. I’ve also got 100s more easy everyday science and STEM activities you might like.

Top tip for STEM Challenges

My biggest tip for a successful STEM Challenge is to keep it simple. Simple STEM challenges are much easier for kids to complete, and as a parent, I know how difficult it can be if you need to go out and buy lots of science materials.

Easter STEM Challenges

Eggy Zip Wire

The idea behind this activity is to build a harness to transport an egg down a zip wire. This is a great activity for learning about friction and changing gradients. To investigate, try changing the type of string used to make the zip wire. A rougher string means more friction between the harness and zip line.

We usually set this up outdoors between two trees, but it works well inside, too.

pipe cleaner used as a harness for a chocolate egg zip line STEM Challenge

Save the Egg

For this activity, children need to wrap an egg so well that it survives a drop down the egg chute. We used a long cardboard tube for our chute, but if you don’t have a tube, drop it from shoulder height.

This is a great activity for making use of recycled materials, too.

Remember to drop all the packaged eggs from the same height to make it a fair test.

Egg Chute - Easter STEM Challenge. Wrap an egg in different materials and drop it down a cardboard egg chute!

How much does an egg weigh?

Using a small balance scale, investigate how many plastic eggs weigh as much as a chocolate egg. Children can also measure and compare different types of eggs.

weigh chocolate eggs as an Easter themed STEM challenge

Magnet Powered Egg Cars

Put a magnet inside a plastic egg and use magnet power to make a car move. This is a brilliantly simple Easter STEM challenge!

STEM Challenge magnet cars

Eggy Toothpick Towers

Try to build a tower strong enough to support an egg using toothpicks and plasticine. This activity is good for encouraging children to think about strong shapes.

egg toothpick towers for an Easter STEM Challenge

Catapult an Egg

Build a craft stick catapult to catapult a plastic egg. We’ve been making egg-shaped targets to shoot the eggs through, too!

Easter Catapult made from wooden lollysticks

Egg Chain Reaction

We love making chain reactions! For this Easter version, we created a chain reaction using a chocolate egg instead of a ball. We used dominoes, a plastic pipe and a toy car, but you can use anything you have around the house.

A chain reaction is a great open-ended STEM challenge with lots of opportunities to be creative and inventive.

Egg chain reaction for kids with dominoes and a plastic pipe

Pneumatic opening egg

This simple pneumatics based STEM challenge uses two syringes and a piece of plastic tubing to open a shoebox decorated like a chick inside an egg.

opening chick egg - pneumatics project. Two syringes and a piece of plastic tubing are used to open a shoebox chick egg

Finally, I’ve created a set of easy Easter STEM Challenge printable cards you might like!

FREE Egg STEM Challenges

More Easter STEM Challenge Ideas

The Educator’s Spin On It shows you how to build egg towers.

Inspiration Laboratories has a fun launching eggs activity.

Find out how many helium balloons it would take to lift an empty egg and then an egg with something inside.

Can you hide different objects inside plastic eggs and ask a friend if they can guess what’s inside by the noise it makes?

Or, try one of my other Easter science ideas.

Can you think of any more egg STEM challenges?

collage of fun Easter STEM challenges including toothpick towers, lolly stick catapults and eggy cars

Last Updated on April 10, 2025 by Emma Vanstone

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